BOXES OF MEMORIES
Introduction
To bring this forward, this installation had use the same methodology that has been use in all previous installations to explore the same concept with different people. The people are those who have moved to Bangkok, Thailand. The process is to collect the layers of memories about the feeling of home and translate that into an evocative surface and later desirable space. This research portfolio aims to collect all experiments and artworks that show the ideas that I have been exploring to find out how to make a space feel like Home and, how feelings can be expressed through form.
WHAT I PROVIDE
These are the artworks installation created using Sarah Sze’s methodology and the experiences that have been given by each interviewee. Each box contains different memories and feelings of what reminds them of home. What do the feelings look like when they become tangible objects?
Different boxes show different thoughts. The interpretations can be varied depending on how an audience views them.
FAMILIARITY
Home can be somewhere that you are familiar with. It is the place where all past family reside in flashback. The loops represent several memories contained in that place and they keep bouncing back into your mind. It could be like a chain where it is connected from story to story and from place to place. It could also mean something that is very complex. There is so much going on at home. But they are now in the past (same colour)
EXPLORATION
Some homes could feel different. There is something that could be revealed but some memories are meant to be hidden. Home could be the place where you feel you belong just like the flow of the mesh fabric and it could also be somewhere with restrictions like the wire cage. Not everything can be clearly understood. There are also many different layers of memory and each layer is different.
FUN
Home is something fun. It is where you feel comfortable. It is where you feel relaxed and can recharge your energy. Home consists of many good feelings such as happiness, warmth, belonging just like the different brightly colours of sticks.
PLANTS AND TEA
Plants and green spaces always seem to energise people, feeling refreshed and relaxed just like the concept of home.
COMPLEXITY
Memories are hidden in every room, corner and belonging at home. After you see that item again it is like opening up a box of memories.
BALLOONS
Home is where you feel recharged after a long working days. You will feel more relaxed and comfortable when you are home. It is where you can rest the most
COMPLEXITY
Layers and layers of memories are buried at home. Good experiences, bad memories and sad times are all valuable.
BOXES OF MEMORIES
This is the image of the full installation where all the boxes of memories are joined together. Even though the word “home” for everyone has a different meaning, they all have some common feeling about it
SOU FUJIMOTO
METHODOLOGY
“Everything can be a possible architectural space.”
This is where I will use Sou Fujimoto’s methodology on my artworks to search for the form that expresses human feeling. I have put small human scale models on my boxes of memory and imagine how it is like as an architecture. I have tried to imagine what my memories would look like if they were to be converted to architecture. Dimensions within the building are reflective of the significance of those memories.
